Word: autogiros
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dumbfounding that it caused the laughter of relief was Juan de la Cierva's Autogiro, which he drove himself, repeating the gooselike antics of his Bryn Athyn, Pa., demonstration the week before (TIME, Sept. 2). He landed in a 20-ft. chalked circle, a simple feat for his machine...
...autogiro which he flew last week is his latest model. The fuselage is 16 ft. long, flat and rather wide. Stub wings with upturned tips extend from each side of the fuselage. The tail structure is 8 ft. wide and has boxed double rudders, double fins, an upper (elevator) and a lower (stabilizer) tail plane. When the tail planes are deflected they meet and act as a single plane. The tractor propeller is 81 in. over all and operated by a Genet-Major five-cylinder radial motor which develops 100 h.p. at 2,400 r.p.m...
...peculiar part of the autogiro is, of course, its four horizontal vanes. Their orbit is 30 ft. in diameter, extending over the tail and beyond the tractor motor...
...high and flew her to about 90 m.p.h. At will he held her almost stationary in the air. His landing made spectators laugh. It was like a domestic goose hopping from a fence with wings spread, feet and tail reaching for the ground. He deflected the autogiro's tail planes downward. They brushed against the ground just before the wheels. Then to show off the machine's stability, he rose slightly. Then he descended, stopping in one demonstration, within a few inches, in none, over ten feet...
Harold F. Pitcairn has the U. S. rights to the autogiro manufacture and license. He is building four of them now at Bryn Athyn, all larger than the demonstration machine, all to carry Wright Whirlwinds. Last week's autogiro will be entered in the Guggenheim Fund safety contest, en trance to which closes in October. First prize is $100,000. Five other prizes are for $10,000 each. Chief contenders are the Cierva Autogiro and the Handley-Page slotted-wing plane. Only a Brunner-Winkle biplane of the 11 U. S. entries (including one of the Autogiros being built...